Get More Done IN 5 DAYS: Personal Development, Productivity & Time Management

1. Get More Done IN 5 DAYS: Personal Development, Productivity & Time Management: We have 168 hours this week. If we cannot manage our time properly, we will waste about 28 hours. This adds up to 1,458 hours per year. On the contrary, if we spend time becoming more productive like thousands of successful people and organizing our time effectively, these will decrease, and these will increase. You will start a more balanced and efficient life. You may want to study more, succeed in your career, allocate time to your personal life or improve yourself. But don't worry. You don't need to spend hundreds of hours and dollars to profit thousands of hours a year. Just dedicating 20 minutes for seven days, you will get nine sections of video content, hands on demonstrations, the use of nine different digital specially prepared documents for you. From routines to habits, from planning to schedule, from distractions to an unbeatable mentality. You will learn many topics and make an unforgettable investment in yourself. I'm confident that as always, I do my best in this course, and I'm eager to share everything with you. I will quickly explain what you will learn throughout the course, routines and habits. With a fantastic method in this section, you will learn how to benefit from the power of habits and create routines that will enhance your quality of life. In this section, I will encourage you to take action for the first time. Practical time management. In this section, you will learn how to organize daily tasks, create more systematic plans, using various tools and implement these plans. You will be equipped with practical information ranging from to do list to digital calendars and even platforms for managing your projects. This section serves as a guide where theoretical knowledge is translated into practice. Create plan and manage time. This section is filled with very practical advice. You will learn to create your time metrics, delegate tasks to software, automate tasks to save time, by time, review that time and understand two minute rule. Preserve focus. There are many factors constantly distracting your attention. Social media notifications, e mails, phone calls, and more. In this section, you will learn how to prevent such distractions and transform your computer and phone into more focused work tools. You will also learn techniques such as time blocking, focus exercises, and pomodoy technique, mentality. In this section, you will learn how to create the right mindset and perspective, how to respond to challenges and obstacles, how to overcome them. You will discover how to increase motivation by recognizing your inner voice and draw a roadmap to reach your goals. In the final section, we will summarize what you have learned, encourage you to take action and guide you on how to obtain your certificates. Of course, I will congratulate you too. Throughout this course, you will have all the knowledge and skills unit to manage your time effectively and increase your productivity. Are you ready to start this journey now? Let's learn and grow together? 2. DAY 1 - The Power of Habits: In this section, we will be talking about routines and habits. Now, I want you to imagine something picture two cars. These two cars are moving parallel to each other. However, one of the car is making a slight turn off the steering wheel. What will happen? Initially, the car will make a slight change in the direction, and the gap between two cars will widen. This difference won't seem like a significant gap at However, after a certain period of time, you will notice a substantial difference between two cars. In essence, gaining a good habit is similar to this. The first car represents our old cells, and the next car, the one making a slight turn of the seric wheel represents our healthier cells with a good habit. We start gradually widening the gap between the two. At first, we don't think this is a significant difference. However, over time, as the gap widens, we realize how different and how beneficial our actions are. So what does this habit? The abstract example I provided actually mean. It could be any routine. Any simple habit that could change your life. It doesn't matter what it is. If you do something well and continue doing it every single day, even if it is just 5 minutes a day, you are making a slight turn of the steric heel. 5 minutes might seem like a small thing. Making a slight turn of the seric heel doesn't seem like a significant change. However, when you apply this regularly, every day, you will personally see how much progress you have made. So we talked about routines habits. First, let's discuss the difference between the two. Routines are the things you consciously do. Habits are things you do unconsciously. For example, if you wash your face every single morning without consciously thinking about it, that's a habit. But if you want to read a book every single day and consciously sit down to do it, it's not yet a habit. It's a routine. You repeat this routine over and over and eventually you will start doing it unconsciously, turning it into a habit. By repeating this routine over and over, you will eventually start doing it unconsciously. So you will have turned it into a habit. So let's now take a look at together a few things we can integrate to our daily lives. Things that don't take much time, but would have been beneficial if you had done them. I have listed a few for you. Let's start with health first. For example, you can do weight exercises for five to 10 minutes every day. Or if you want your knees not to hurt when you sit on them in the future, or if you want to avoid hunching, you can do joint exercises. If you don't drink water regularly every day, you can make drinking a glass of water part of your morning routine, or you can do 5 minutes of yoga every morning. Or if you don't stand straight, you can add a posture exercises to your morning routine. It might seem like a very small change. 5 minutes, but it contributes to your standing upright. You might think of reapping the benefits for 30 to 40 years without hunching. Let's move on to our second point. Mental develop. Doing meditation for five to 10 minutes every morning can keep you mentally healthier. Or you can focus for 5 minutes on things that you're grateful for. Three, cultural development. You can set daily goals. We will definitely delve into this in the future sections. Or by reading the news in a specific field, you can improve yourself in that area. I used to do this in stock market fields. Every morning, I would log into a stock market app and read the news for about 5 minutes. This allowed me to acquire a lot of information on the subject inmates. Or you can read a book for 5 minutes every day or you can read for 10 minutes. However, if you're not a regular reader and you think reading is very important, you can definitely add such a routine. And you will see you finish vom book every month or you can work on your appearance. For example, you can do a facial yoga in the mornings or you can do exercises for your jaw line. I have seen some people use Guacotone. Maybe you can incorporate this into your routine. Or if you don't have a skincare routine in the mornings, you can establish one. Routines don't always have to be about doing something. And it can also be not doing something. For example, if you want to reduce smoking, but currently, you smoke a pack a day, you can limit it to five cigarettes a day. When you say I want exceed five every day, not doing something will become a routine and later a habit, or it could be not consuming alcohol regularly. There are many things that can be done. So to inspire you, I have prepared a special list. In this list, I have added routines that I believe can lead to a significant improvement when you dedicate just five to 10 minutes a day. You can download and use the list in the next lesson. Let's see which routines will catch your interest. And you will say, I wish I had done this for 5 minutes every day. If I could inspire you in this regard, in the next video, we will move on to the application phase if you found good inspiration from this list. I will first show how I do the application on this notebook, and then I will show you how you can apply it. Until the next video. Take care, and goodbye. 3. DAY 1 - Routines That Changed My Life: Welcome back. Could you take a look at the list? I hope you have found something suitable for yourself or got inspired. Saying, I want to do this. It would be great for me if I do it every day. Now, let's see how I organize the things. I said to myself, it would be great. Let's open our notebook and take a look. Actually, the logic is straightforward. There are certain tasks you need to do every single day and you need to tell your brain that you have done them every day, and you will continue to do so. I did this every day, and I will continue to do this every day. Look, know this, see this you say to your brain. How do you visualize this by writing it down in a notebook. Maybe on a piece of paper anywhere, perhaps by putting a check mark on it. So the basic idea is to write down the routines ide every day somewhere and keep it with us. How do I do it? I start by opening this notebook in the mornings. I especially took care to have the notebook a bit expensive because it needed to mean something to me. I bought a notebook that I considered as expensive. I open my notebook, I take out my pen, and you see the first page. My handwriting is terrible, by the way. Sorry about that. You see a sentence saying I'm the future multimillionaire. It's actually a simple affirmation sentence. You write a sentence about the person you want to be in the future. I won't go into that right now. It is not very relevant to our topic. But if you wish, you can ask me in the Q&A section what this means and why I did it. After writing this, you immediately see a number 30. The meaning of this 30 is actually that I do 30 push ups that day because my first routine was doing push ups. Can you see one. Why? Because I did one push up that day. The next day, I did two push up. I continued to progress with three, four, five, six. I will explain that in more detail, why I do it in this way in the next video I increase my push ups every day. Then I needed to take a medicine regularly every day. My doctor prescribed. So I write I 98. I stands for the first letter of lat which means medicine in Turkish and 98 means there are 98 days left. Then the next day, I take my medicine again, and I write I 97 and continue my routine this way. I move on to the next month. One page is a full month for me. I changed my push ups to ten times three sets, and every day increasing one push up, as you can see, I'm going. Until 15 times three, that means after four to five push ups a day by doing this, I improved my posture, achieved a better appearance, and felt more confidence. It was one of the best things I did. Then I take my medications, and there comes the letter M stands for a serum, the skin care serum, and I need to continue this for 180 days. I started for 180 days and I continues. I come to the next page, and you see that I have added knee routines. For example, there is something called R R. This is 15 times three, meaning 15 times of three sets of the reach your row movements, a moment that develops your back muscles and helps you stand more upright. I come to my next month. P is for push ups. RR is for the reach row. Another exercise, I do. I apply my serum and there is something called 5 minutes is for breathing exercise. Again, n is coming from a Turkish. I started doing 5 minutes of breathing exercises. This was an exercise I did to improve my addiction. Again, like many events in our lives, diction training is something we can only benefit from when done regularly. I decided to do it this way because otherwise, nothing can force me to do the same unwanted boring thing every day. But when I write every day and know that if I skip one day, there will be an empty line. I do my routine next day. Even if I don't want to, and this helps me to turn into a habit. And there is something you see in between. That is the off day. Of day means that I take a break. I consciously give myself a recreational day one every 30 days, meaning every time a page is completed. This is entirely given for me to use a day when I don't want to do it a day off, a break day. You can do this differently. For example, you can write yourself one per week or you can give yourself one every two months. The basic purpose of this is I am aware that we cannot sustain these routines until the end of our lives, and our goal is to make them as sustainable as possible. To make it as sustainable as possible, we exclude days that we really, really, really don't feel like doing it or days when we are sick or days when we are not at home or of an urgent task or on vacation. Because if we do this, we consciously confirming that we want to do it on those days. Not performing these routines on those days doesn't become a failure for us. On the contrary, it becomes an accepted situation. But if I'm too strict when I say, I will never take a break, I will do this even on holidays. While everyone expects me to sleep in on vacation, I will get up and do push ups. Then in this case, this routine becomes unsusstainable. Our goal is to make it sustainable. Making it difficult is not about poisoning our lives. On days when we are sick on our monthly break days, on vacation days or days when we are not at home, we take an off day and we don't do it on those days. We do it this consciously. I'm moving on to the next page. Here I set a push up challenge for myself and checked if I could do 3,000 push ups and I did it. By the way, you can see that I completed some routines and you can see that I delayed some of them. Then I have acquired knee routines like starting to do planks. I have come to the next page. Here I started planking, and you can see that I started an eye exercises. Here, I'm doing a special exercise given by my doctor because I have a lazy eye. Later on, I do push ups again, try different moments. I start reading book four 10 minutes. Then I further develop my routines. As you can see, I continue four months. And now we have current month as you see. Today, I wrote this line, and from now on, I will continue doing this in the same way regularly. By writing, you establish a very good communication with your mind, and you motivate yourself to do it every day. When I come to the last part of the notebook, you can see that I have written down the routines I want to do at from now on. For example, I wrote melatonin, which I have already done, or I said cut down on sugar. I said, restrengthing, I said cold shower. Here, I'm adding routines that I say, Oh, it would have been great if I had done this. And when the time comes, I do this when I complete my other routines because I don't want to make my routines too difficult, adding a bunch of routines on top of each other every day and making my days difficult, disrupting my sustainability. So I write like this, and when the day comes, I will add these two, and I close my notebook putting away my pen. As you can see, the routine notebook was like this. In the next video, we will talk a bit more detail about the special rules I set so that you can integrate such a routine notebook into your life and integrate things that you say, it would have been great if I have done this from now on into this notebook Now, let's move on to the next video and talk in more detail about how you can integrate such a routine with the rules. I will see you in the next video. Take care. 4. DAY 1 - Creating the Routine That Will Change Your Life: Yes. Welcome to this video where you can create your own notebook. In the next video, you will find a templet. You can start directly by downloading this template if you wish. Because how you do doesn't really matter, you can buy a notebook or you can choose any of the posters you see on the screen right now. Unfortunately, I don't want to add links because it is for sales purposes, and there is no advertising or sponsorship involved. I'm just showing it for your consideration. Or you can directly take a white piece of paper and right there. Personally, my humble advice is you to buy a somewhat expensive notebook that you can establish a connection and write your beautiful writing and that beautiful notebook. At least if your writing is not as bad as mine. Or you can directly go to the next lesson and download the template here. Now, let's see what are the most important things you need to know before integrating your own routine. Remember, we only have one goal, and that is to be sustainable, not to do these routines in the best possible way. Rule number one, don't break the chain. We do this every single day. Of course, we don't do it when we are sick or when we have a day off, but rather than that, we do it every day and think of it as links in a chain. Each day of this chain represents each link, and we don't break this That is, if we can't do it for a single day, the chain is broken. Our first goal is to do this every day so that these routines become a habit. The next point, to be clear. If we don't write our goals, clearly, we probably won't do them correctly. For example, if you want to meditate, say 5 minutes of meditation. Say I will finish a meditation audio recording. Otherwise, you may sit down for meditation at first. Do it enthusiastically for 10 minutes, then sit down again and again, then you start to get bored. On the 20th day, you quickly do 1 minute meditation and get up. This won't be effective. So you can say 5 minutes of reading, ten push ups or of running. The important thing is to be clear in numerical terms. Three, start simple. As you can see in my notebook. On the first day, I only did one push up. Actually, I could have done more. I was capable of doing that, but intentionally, I didn't because our goal here is to get the body used to it. If you start with 50 push ups, on the first day, you will say, what I'm doing? It is so tiring. Am I going to do this every day, and you will magnify it in your mind. But if you start with one, two, three, four, every day, or start with 1 minute, 1.5 minutes, 2 minutes in one gradually increase 1 minute, two minute in reading, you will see that it is not difficult for you. On the contrary, it will feel easy and you will say, This is so easy. I did a push up and I didn't get tired at all. After five days, you will do five push ups and say, I didn't get tired at all. This is nothing. When you reach 15th push up, you will already be able to easily do 50 push ups because you will be on the 15th day. Our goal is not to do 50 push ups. Our goal is to do sustainable push ups. For, define the end of your goal. That is, if you're reading a book, reading a book every day for the rest of your life can be very exhausting We do this in the form of a routine, and if you are going to break this routine at some point, you need to break it successfully. If you set a goal that defines the end of the whole routine, like finish five books, read 5,000 pages, read for 10 hours, read for 100 hours, then when the routine is over, you will have achieved something. But if you don't set an end, Maybe in the six months, maybe after 1.5 years, you will eventually stop reading one day, and then you will have lost because you didn't set an end. You didn't achieve something that day and you didn't read a book. But if you say I'm finishing this job in the tenth book or I'm finishing this job on the $5,000 push up, then on the day you do $5,000 push up, you will say I achieved something. On the contrary, you will not have lost something. Grant yourself permission. We have already talked about this in the previous point. You need to openly state your excuses so that on the day of the excuse, you haven't failed to achieve something and broken the chain. What are these? For example, holidays. You want to waste your holidays by performing your routines for half an hour every day or if you do that, you might appear to reach it from the outside, so you don't hesitate to write an off day on days when you're not at home on holidays or when you're sick. And besides this, make sure to allocate yourself a discretionary day off. For example, I will learn one day off per month or one day off every 15 days. And in addition to this, make sure to schedule a discretionary day off for yourself. For example, I will earn one day off per month or one day off every 15 days. For example, when I enter the template I provided to you, I see the following at the bottom. I will apply my routines every day except from the conditions stated below. Every specific number of days, I will earn one discretionary day off. I declare that I will not perform my routines in cases like illness, vacation, et cetera. My routines have been clearly defined. I will not abandon my routines. On the contrary. I will successfully complete them on the date I have sets. As you can see, I have already collected everything here. You can start your first routine directly by downloading the templet. But of course, it's also nice to buy a slightly expensive notebook and establish a physical connection method. I recommend. And we have come to our final point. Six, don't forget to start your day with a notebook. You need to do this every day and make it a habit. One of the easiest ways to do this is if you keep a notebook to open your notebook as soon as you wake up and start your day by opening it. As long as a notebook is open, it means you haven't finished your routine. Later, you finish your routine, write your entry, and close that notebook. Closing it can mean I have completed today's routine. With such a reminder system, easily every day without forgetting, you can write something in your Of course, don't forget to tell the people you live with about this. Otherwise, someone might come and say, Oh, this was open and close it. It happened to me. Yes, that were the rules necessary for you to implement your own notebook routine. As long as you adhere to these rules, you will continue your routines as sustainably as possible and turn them into habits. Don't forget to go to the next lesson and download the template or create your own template. Until we meet again, take care. 5. DAY 1 - Your Turn (and Summary): Okay. I want to do a very brief recap and encourage you to take an action. First of all, what did we say spending five to 10 minutes a day on things we want to do, but can't even do is like turning the steering wheel just a bit, and this will make a significant difference in the long run. Maybe you will be healthier. Maybe you will be knowledgeable. Maybe you can improve yourself in a different field, and you can do this with just five to 10 minutes a day in the long run. If you haven't downloaded the list of routes that you can get inspired by yet, you can download it in the section. I strongly recommend downloading and checking it out. This way, it can inspire you and things say I definitely should do. And if you haven't downloaded the routine notebook template yet, I strongly recommend downloading this template as well. This way, you can have your own routine notebook or you can integrate a similar template into the notebook you purchased, and the rest is up to you. I have no hesitation in saying that at the point where you mentally lock yourself into filling this notebook every day, you can definitely continue with this notebook for many months. Until the next videos, take care. 6. DAY 2 - To-Do List: Today, I will talk to you about the to do list, which is a great tool to organize our lives. You have probably already heard about this concept. However, in this video, we will learn to create an effective to do list and integrate it to our lives. What is that to do list? Simply it's a tool we use for planning and organization. We will see how it helps us in both personal and professional aspects of our lives. So why do we need such a list. First and foremost, it helps us to determine what we need to do in the daily cows. Especially when a lot of tasks pile up at once, our brain may think it can't handle them all and shuts down. You may have experienced such a situation before. However, if we write down our tasks on paper and visualize them, we can escape the cows. Also think about the satisfaction of crossing out a task when you complete it. And of course, it reminds you of an important things you shouldn't forget. This way, you don't strain yourself trying to remember a task. You already write it down. However, I don't think these are convincing enough. So I want to show you a clip from Brian Tracy. Now, here's something else I learned. And they did a study of 50 owners of companies, successful owners of companies like yourselves. And they asked them, what is the very best time management business tool that you've ever discovered. 49 out of the 50 held up a yellow writing pad. Yellow writing pad, sort of like this. And this is what they did. This is how they planned their day. They made a list to do list today, today's date. They wrote down everything they had to do. They always work from a list. Always work from a list, always work from a list. If you don't work from a list, it's very much like taking your hands off the wheel of your car going down a winding road in the mountains. What happens is your life's going to go on and you're instantly going to start doing irrelevant and unimportant and useless things. And at the end of the day, you'll be exhausted and you'll accomplished nothing. How to prepare an effective to do list. First, prioritize your tasks based on the importance. Here is where the smart criterion comes into play. Now, let's look at each letter of smart individually. A meaning specific, your goals should be clear and specific. Instead of read more books, you can think of finish two books by the end of this weekend, meaning measurable. Set concrete criteria to measure your goals. For example, exercising three times a week. Meaning achievable, set realistic and achievable goals. Finish five books by tomorrow is not realistic goal. A meaning relevant. Ensure your goals are meaningful and important to you. T, meaning time bound, set a time limit for your goals. For example, start learning a new language within two months. And remember, lists should be flexible. Leave room for unexpected situations, Traps and things to avoid with to do lists. Attention. Your list doesn't have to be perfect. Let's they can look together at some common mistakes made with lists. For example, making endless lists or only adding easy tasks to the list is a mistake. Also, constantly postponing tasks or making errors in prioritization is a common issue. So our goal is not to pile up too many tasks or only put easy ones, but stay committed to the list. Once we stay committed to the list, we will start using it effectively. Piling up tasks on the list without commitment won't make much sense. Okay, so let's talk about technology. We do live in an age of technology, don't Which applications we can use for these lists. Have you ever heard of popular apps like Nido or Trello? Or does the classical pen and paper methods still work? Frankly, the pen and paper method still works as you heard from Brian Tracy. However, you should use what gives you the best results. Therefore, to make the most out of this course in the upcoming lessons, we will explore the mentioned applications such as Nido and Trello and more. One by one with practical examples. In the end, you can use whichever suits you best or you can go back to using paper. How can we use these lists in real life. Here are some examples in professional life to manage projects. For example, when planning an event or preparing a presentation in personal life for tasks like vacation planning, creating a shopping list or planning your monthly budget. So, how should we use these lists on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis? In daily lists, specify the tasks that need to be completed on the day. In my opinion, the most logical thing to do in site situation is to write down just the tasks for the day on the paper and in a daily list application. Or let's look at weekly lists. In weekly lists, you can list your general goals and tasks for the week. Or you can directly do it monthly and specify the general goals and projects you want to achieve that month. In short, you can do it the way that makes you feel comfortable. Personally, I prefer daily planning. Also, for longer term plans, I use Srello which I will show you in the next videos. We will delve into all of these details in the upcoming videos. Finally, how about preparing a to do list at the beginning of each day for that day. This habit will make your life more organized and product. Especially if you have watched the routine and has section from the previous episodes and have a routine journal. Why not add preparing a daily to do list as a task in your routine? Is there harm in trying? I think not. Yes, we have come to the end of our to do list video. In the next video, we will use technological tools instead of pen and paper. Let's see what will change and which one you would like more. 7. DAY 2 - Daily Tasks: Any.do: Hello, everyone. In this section, we will start using to do list practically. Our first application is end. Later, I will show you Microsoft to do and to do list. In fact, their functions are essentially the same. There is almost no difference between them. You can use all of them on both your phone and computer. I usually prefer using them on my phone because in fact, I used to do list for two purposes. First, when I start my day in the morning, I write to do list and organize my day accordingly. This was already the basic purpose we learned. However, actually, I have a second purpose in using these applications. That is when a spontaneous task comes during the day, I don't want to keep that in mind. For example, there might be a task, I need to complete by Wednesday. Someone may have asked for me to do something, or I might not even remember a thing that I should have done before. It doesn't matter. I immediately take any do, write down the task, choose the date. It remains me the task on that date. So I don't end up promising to do a task on a certain date, and then forgetting about it because any do reminds me whenever I want. I think it's a very effective method. This way, I don't forget any tasks during the day, when I say, Oh, I will do this, or I will do that tomorrow. Now, let's take a look at the interface of any do together. How is it? Pen and you do. Currently, we see four options below. My day, upcoming all tasks and calendar. When I click on MyDay, I can see the things I'm going to do today. If I add a task, it will appear in the MyDay list. Let's add a task here right away. I added my task. As you can see, it is written in the list. Then let's say I'm adding a second task, but I'm going to do it now. If I want, I can postpone it tomorrow or any time of today. I added it again. As you can see, my second task has been added. Then I click again task Tree. But I click here. As you can see, I can categorize it. I can categorize it as shopping list, personal work or private. For now, I don't want to deal with this, and I click it again. I added my task. When I finish my task, I simply click on it. Strike through it, and I'm actually sending a message to my brain. Look, I completed this. I did something good. I can say seeing this is a bit satisfying. Now I'm going back to my main page and maybe not daily, but I want to see my weekly tasks. Then I click on the button here. As you can see, I can currently see the lists of upcoming days in front of me. I can notice that you see quite meaningless things right now. These are tasks entered in a way that I can understand. I have set their dates and times and when date and time arrive. And will remind me of them as notifications. Now, I want to give you an example right away. I clicked. I noted it as reminder. I went to personal. I choose today's date and immediately select a minute later 7:00 P.M. And I say sent. Soon, I will see this task as a notification. Now let's wait. While waiting for the notification, let me show you the interface of the computer on the site. We can say it's almost the same. When I enter the computer, I see my tasks here. I can see my other tasks on the right, and on the left, I can see my lists, whether I want to look at today or next seven days or all my tasks. I can see that. This helps me easily manage my tasks, both from the computer and Now, let's see what the difference is between to dost and Microsoft to do. Actually, I can say there is basically no difference. You can use whichever interface you prefer. Now, let's take a look at to dost. I enter to Dist. It has a quite simple interface. I say at right from the top right. And I write my task here. I can do this task today or postpone it another date. I can prioritize it. For example, I say first level. Then I say at task. My task is added. You can see it in today list because I added it a few days later. When I click on upcoming, I go to the next week and see my task name Tuesday task. So it basically allows me to see this in a calendar interface. Of course, we don't need to go into too much detail here right now as we will cover calendars in the future lessons. Simply put the interface of to list is almost the same. I also want to show Microsoft to do. As you can see, we see the same interface again. Again, it says add task to us. We can add our task from here. If we want, we can choose tomorrow for our task. If we want, we can set a reminder for our task. For example, tomorrow, Monday at 9:00 P.M. Or if I want to choose specifically, I can set my reminder for the 28th of the month. For instance, at 4:00 P.M. Yes, we have received a notification from Aide. If I want, I can finish it or mark it as done. Of course, you don't only see the notification this way when you slide your notification panel. You can see the notification from Ad here, named reminder. So when you say remind me of this on that date, at that time, you look at your phone, see the notification and say, Oh, I was going to do this. This way, I haven't burdened myself with the tasks. And can easily see it from here. If I'm not going to do the task on that day, I press postpone and the notification will come back to me after a certain time. As you can see to do or task list applications are this simple. In fact, whether you use paper or these applications, it is the same. If you are going to use the reminder feature, I strongly recommend having an application on your phone. However, if you say, I don't use the reminder feature, doing this with paper won't change anything. In the next video, I will show you a more comprehensive application. It his name is Trello. We generally use this to plan our monthly tasks or more intense weekly tasks. I will show you with my own amps. The difference from T is is that to do is generally used for simpler data tasks. Trailo is used for slightly more complex tasks, especially for tasks that are worked on as a team. Let's move on to the next video. Goodbye. 8. DAY 2 - Weekly, Monthly Tasks: Trello: Hello, everyone. Let's take a look at Trello together. Here, we will be using a slightly advanced version of the two do lists. Why are we doing this? Because imagine you have a lot of tasks, and you need to remember all of them, what stage they were in? Who was handling them? What category were they in? And were they in progress done or on hlt? We can manage all of these on a single platform. That is Trello. Let's take a look together. Right now, you are seeing my Trello boards on the screen. I will enter one of these boards, and I want to show you how things work. Currently, I'm in a board named Inflip. Inflip is my influencial marketing platform that I founded, which is my start up company. There are lots of tasks to be done in Inflip With multiple people involved, I need to organize everything somehow. As you can see, it says to do list here, meaning these are things we will do in one day. We just don't know when. It says on hold. These tasks will be done one day, but are a bit more urgent than the ones in the to do list. It says in progress. In progress means that tasks that are currently being worked on. It says recurring. Recurring is for a regular ongoing tasks. These tests are never considered done. That's why they are in recurring. As we move further, you see the done folder. Done refers to tasks that have been completed. Now, let's take a general look. Firstly, you see me and you see other colleagues who are working with us. This way, we can easily distinguish which task belongs to whom. For example, I entered one of the cards. Everything you see here, these small elements are each a card. I entered the card, I can put links here, write descriptions, and if I want, I can add labels. For example, I labeled it with a green tag, calling it social media and save it. I can label it as social media this way. I know that this card is related to social media, or we may not use any labels at all. I can add participants and select other members from here. Similarly, I can assign a specific date to this task from the date section. Now, let's exit this card. For example, let's say I want to start working on this task. I take it and move it to in progress, which is the section for tasks currently in progress, or I have completed this task. I pick it up and drag it to the done folder. So, what other features are there? For example, when I click on a card, I can discuss in the comments section below. Or under some specific tasks, we can open a to do list specific to that task and check off items as we complete them. In essence, we have created a board where we can track the tasks we want to do are doing or done on an individual basis. Now, I want to show you another board. This is the board where we handle our social media tasks. Here, as you can see, we are using labeling. For example, I click on one and say Add a U cart, name it trial. And when I enter the label section, I can use various tasks like coming soon, data statistics, trends, who we are and examples. This way, I can remember what topics I'm creating social media content about. If I want, I can join and indicate that I am the one handling this task. Now, I'm exiting We have categorized these into five different sections, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or X. Tick TAC and posted. If we wanted, we could have separated them into to do and done it doesn't matter. We completely decide how we want to use it here. I also use trail for research purposes. Here, I had a conducted research on advertising on Spotify. I have kept all my links, things I have learned and notes in this way. As you can see on the screen, it is not just a to do application. You can use it like this. Now I want to talk about a trailer board I prepared specifically for this video. It is my weekly tasks board. I created this purely as an example. The tasks here are not real. I have classified them as keep in mind to do we'll do this week and done. For example, I have an activity like clean the house. I have marked it as to be done. If on Monday, I sit down and look at the beginning of this list and I can take this task and move it to in progress, and I will need to do it within this week. After doing it, I will move into done. And when I see that, the house is dirty again. I will move back to do. Also, I can remember a person's birthday. If I have an appointment or need to schedule one, I can add it here. Or for personal tasks like visa application, I can put them into do. This also allows me to manage my Vk in a very nice way. If you wish you can also quickly create such a board. Let's create one right away. I came to Tread, I said, create, I said, create a board. Let the title of the board be monthly tasks. I say, create, as you can see, the board is created now. Let's quickly choose a nice background for ourselves. This way, we have personalized it a bit more. I said add to list, let's say to do in progress this month and done. Now we can add cards. For example, what should we do this month? Let's say social media posts. Let's come to this card. If we want to add a description, we can write it here. If we want to add a label, from here, for example, we can tag the social media platform as and this way, we can quickly create our own trail board. Compared to to do do or microsoft to do, as we looked in the previous video. Trail L will be a bit more complex because it allows you to manage your work in a more comprehensive way. My personal recommendation is to use applications like do for organizing your daily tasks and remembering things. However, use Trail for more comprehensive tasks, especially when working on a weekly, monthly or with the team. As you can see, this is how Trail is. You can start using these applications for free on the web and through the app. In our next video, we will go through calendars. I will see you there and goodbye. 9. DAY 2 - Effective Calendar Usage: Welcome back. Today, I will talk to you about the advantages that a calendar provides us. I don't want to bore you with general information like what a calendar is and why we should use it. Let's focus directly on the real impact of calendar in our lives. Imagine forgetting a friend's birthday party or an important business meeting or realizing that you are running late. Without using a calendar, the risk of missing such an important events is quite high. Or maybe we won't miss them, but perhaps we won't be prepared for a meeting or we will be late for the event. For example, imagine planning two different events for a weekend and both are on the same day. Without using a calendar, we can't foresee such conflicts in advance, leading to last minute stress, trying to catch up with boats. Let's imagine you had a busy day. There are dozens of tasks you need to do in a day, and they all overlap. Thanks to calendar, you can allocate time slots for tasks, allowing you to progress in a more organized way. Trying to remember many things at the same time is difficult and consumes energy. Instead of thinking, what was I supposed to do today, you can look at the calendar and see your entire plan. So how do we gain these advantages? This is where the digital calendars comes into play. Thanks to various calendar applications, we can make our lives. In our next video, I will show you step by step how to effectively use Google calendar. Let's move on to the new video together, and I will see you soon. 10. DAY 2 - Google Calendars: Welcome back. Now, I will show you how to transition from one calendar to another. Yes, first, we opened Google calendar, and we locked into our Google account. As you can see, there is currently a weekly schedule in front of me. If I want, I can click on the top right to switch to monthly view, and I can navigate between months like this, or I can simply view it daily. For now, the weekly layout looks good. So I will stick with that. Now, I want to categorize the things I want to add to my calendar. One of them is my friend's birthdays. I quickly go to the other calendar section, click on plus icon and say, create a new calendar. And the name of the calendar is birthdays. I'm not writing anything in the description. The owner is Don Ozaran and I say Create calendar. As you can see, a calendar named birthday has been created on the right sides. Now, I'm going back and editing the calendar named birthdays. For example, let's say a Friend's birthday is on the 23rd of the month. I click on it. I can add my friend's birthday here. But if I double click, I will see a more detailed interface. So I click on the cross and double click. Now, I can enter the details I want more specifically. First, I write John's birthday here. This is an all day event for me. So I select all day and I say every year on 23rd January instead of does not repeat. This way, I will remember this every 23rd January and won't have to enter John's birthday again. Then it says, Add a location, but I want add a location, and I will choose birthdays by clicking here. So I'm noting this in the calendar named birthdays. In this way, I segment this so as not to mix them when I create another calendar for my meetings or sports program. That I say add the notification because I will probably forget the birthday. At least, I'm notified a week before, I might consider going to buy a gift. So I clicked on the notification. I said seven days, selected one week, and a notification will come to me at nine in the morning. If I want, I can add another notification. I will receive this one by e mail. I'm saying just in case I am trying to extend this from one day to seven days, and I have said it for a week. I will get a notification, an e mail. So I won't forget the birthday a week in advance to this day. And Save. Now, let's create a new calendar. I click, I say, create a new calendar, and I create this calendar as a sports program. The program is created. I quickly come back from settings, and I see sports program here. Now, let's assume that you do sports on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and you go to the gym at 6:00 A.M. In the morning. I click three times on Monday. I double click where Monday morning, 6:00 A.M. Is, and I say, go to the gym. I said I would do this between 6:00 A.M. And 7:00 A.M. In the morning. But I will also do it in other days. So I click on Tsat repeat, and I say custom. I'm saying that I will do this on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I will also repeat this weekly. So I will do this regularly every week. I say done. Now, I stated that I do this on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6:00 A.M. In the morning. I can add a location if I want, or I can set notification for myself. For example, remind myself 30 days before. Look, you are supposed to go to the gym. Later, I click here and I choose my correct calendar as sports program. Let's not forget that I can also add a description if I want. Or if you are going with a friend, you can click on the at guest button to invite your friend. And both of you can use a shared calendar. This is a pretty nice example. I clicked, S. As you can see, my workout schedule has been added. Now, let's imagine that on one hand, we have regular meetings, but during lunch breaks, you won't want to work or have a meeting. So let's add our lunch hours as a strip to our schedule now. I won't create a special calendar for this. I will directly include it in my calendar named D Nazara. Right away, I'm thinking that we have a lunch between 12:00 and 1:00 P.M. I clicked on doesn't repeat again, and this time, I select every day. I want to block every day 12-1. Then I want add a location. I don't need to add a notification either. I can keep this in the Dysara calendar. Without adding a guest, I quickly made a record by writing lunch. As you can see, we moved on to lunch. Now, without prolonging the talk by doing the same things, I will quickly make a few more editions, and after doing so, I will show you the final results. Yes, I made a few more editions, and now I think I have explained a bit more about what I mean now. For example, I created a yellow calendar and name it my work. Here, I marked the times when I have meetings like investor report, product demo or social media. On the other hand, you can see my cat schedule in light green. We have added this together before. I added a reminder called rent payment, and it will remind me every Friday of each month. On the one hand, if you need to take a medicine, I created an alarm called take medicine before breakfast at 8:00 A.M. As you can see, it's set for 8:00 A.M. Without a specific end time. It just reminds me that it should be done at 8:00 A.M. And it repeats every day. On the one hand, we also added our birthdays and lunch breaks. If I specifically want to look at my cat schedule, close everything else and view just my workout schedule weekly or monthly like this. Or I can add my other tasks and track everything more clearly on a monthly basis or vice versa. I can also look at it on a daily basis like this. There is also one more thing I want to show. You might use Google calendar with multiple people. In such cases, you can share your calendar with each other. For example, I can currently add and remove my business partners calendar to and from my own. This way, and at a meeting, I'm automatically notified, and I don't have to ask him questions like, are you available at this time, because I already know when he's free by automatically seeing his calendar. Let's say we want to share a calendar, but we want to share a specific calendar. For example, I want to work out with a friend. I'm going to share my own workout schedule with them. In such case, I go to workout schedule, click on the three dots, click on settings, and sharing. S get a sharable link, and as you can see, I can copy the link and directly share it with my friends. They can only see my workout schedule, but they won't be able to see private things like my medicine schedule or rent As you can see, this way, you can use Google calendar very effectively and visualize all your tasks, revealing the mental burden. It is truly a fantastic application. Personally, I use applications like I do for daily tasks, and I use applications like Tre L generally for monthly or broader plans. But I definitely don't neglect using calendar. If I have a special meeting, I immediately write it in my calendar, so I won't forget it. I said a reminder for about an hour before, and now it is impossible for me to forget that meeting. So let's move on to the next video. 11. DAY 2 - A Practical Solution: Calendly: Welcome back. While we have our calendar ready, I want to talk to you in this video about an application that can wanders with our calendars. It's name alenty. For example, you can be a lawyer, hairdresser, a consultant, or a psychologist. If people want to create an appointment with you and you don't want to tell them every time which dates and time slots are available, you will see that llenty is a perfect solution. You will understand more comfortably what I mean in a minute. Now, let's go to elenty. Yes, we have arrived llenty. Now I will log in using my Google account. I click on Gmail. It's already asking for access to my Google calendar directly. I'm giving access to my Google calendar right away, and my Cal D account has been created now. I click on account and say calendar sink and I see that Google calendar is connected. Now I can go back to the home page and start my work. I press Create button and the top left, I say one of meeting. That means a person will look at our calendar and instantly choose available hours to create an appointment with us. As you can see, it's already sold my events in my And if I had any calendar appointments, it would see those two. Now, I'm choosing my available time like this. By the way, I set a meeting for 30 minutes. You can set different intervals, if you wish. And I choose only myself as the participants. I selected Turkey as my time zone. I can fill in the hours I think are available. Or if there is a gap in my calendar, I can fill those hours directly like this. For example, if I had a different appointment here, I wouldn't mark it like this. On the contrary, I would delete the existing appointments here as I showed and immediately put a new after one. For now, this is sufficient for example. I say next, and it simply asks us to name our meeting. Quickly, I wrote something like dietitian appointment here. Assuming we are dieticians and it's asking for a location. If we are having an online meeting, we can choose options like Zoom, Google meeting or Microsoft Teams. Or if we are talking on the phone, we can choose the phone option, or if we are meeting at a location, we can choose the location. Since online meetings are the most common nowadays, let's choose Zoom, for example. Now Zoom has been added. When you connect your Zoom account and your Celenty account, your Zoom links will be automatically generated. Now I have created all details. I say publish meeting. As you can see, the link is created now, and now all I have to do is to share this link with people I want to schedule a meeting with. Let's do an example right away. I click on the link as if I were a customer, and now my available days are shown on the screen. There is a description. For example, I click on the 23rd of the month. As you can see, my available hours, the ones I selected and Mountco are displayed in front of As a customer, I want to schedule the meeting at 4:00 P.M. I clicked on 4:00 P.M. And I said next. It is asking for my name and surname. I entered my name and surname. If I'm joining with someone else, I can also write their e mail here. Let me quickly write a second e mail. I added my second e mail, and if I want to leave a note, I can also leave a note. Then I set schedule events. Now, let's see if such an event will appear in our Google calendar. Yes, we have entered our Google calendar, and on the 23rd of the month at 4:00 P.M. Of course, since Dzan setting up a meeting with Don seran because we just set up a meeting with ourselves, Don seran has a meeting with D. As you can see, it automatically generated the Zoom link and shows the participants here. If I want, I can click on Zoom link, and when the time comes and automatically join this online meeting. And when I scroll down, I see that it has automatically created a reminder for me 30 minutes. So it will remind me of such a meeting half an hour before. As you can see, when we combine ally with calendars, we achieve such a beautiful result. If you also have a job that involves meeting with a lot of people, one on one, you can directly determine the vacant slots in your calendar and create meetings with your consumers from those specified slots. It is also worth mentioning that alanly is completely free. Until the next video, take care and good pie. 12. DAY 2 - Summary: In this video, I want to briefly recap everything and provide a summary. Firstly, what did we learn? We learned the importance of the to do list. Then we saw how to use applications like And set reminders electronically and avoid paper to some extent. After that, we moved into Tre L and learned how to organize our tasks on a larger scale. Then we transition to the calendar in the calendar, we learned both Google calendar and ally and saw how the calendar can be effectively used in our lives. And we have come to the end of the section. Exciting tips await you in the next section. Let's move on to that section together. See you. 13. DAY 3 - Time Management Matrix: Section, we will talk extensively about time management and learn new things. Today we will explore the concept of time matrix to manage our tasks and time more effectively. What is the time matrix? The time metric helps us prioritize tasks by categorizing them into four categories. It is divided into four, important, but not urgent, urgent but not important, unimportant and not urgent. Now, let's take a look at the squares one by one together. First square, urgent and important. This square covers situations that require an immediate response. For example, a fire breaks out at on, you have a project due to tonight. Sudden health problems occur. However, if you constantly spend time on the square, the risk of stress and burnout may increase. Second, square. Important but not urgent. In this square, you will find your long term goals and personal developments. For example, planning a weekend vacation with your family, the process of writing a book that you plan to complete with six months, a morning meditation or exercise routine every day. This square presents actions that truly create value in your life. They are important because they are valuable. However, they are not urgent because none of us forcing you to do them. Third square, urgent but not important. This square is the most consuming for us. For example, constantly ringing phones, meetings organized by someone unexpected. Social media notifications, not getting stuck, and this square determines how productive you actually are at the end of the day. For square, unimportant and not urgent. This square usually includes tasks that do not directly affect our quality of our life or productivity. Talk about 2 minutes rule in the upcoming videos. By applying this rule, you can quickly finish tasks in the fourth square. For example, watching television or scrolling through social media is an activity in the fourth square. Spending too much time in the square can distance us from truly important tasks and goals. Of course, spending time in the square occasionally is important for relaxation and relief. The important thing is that the time you spend here is a conscious choice. Now, let's move on to shifting time from third square to the second square. The key to making your time more valuable is to avoid unnecessary tasks that seem urgent. Instead, it is to transfer the time from the third square to the second square, focusing on your dreams and things you really want to do. For example, turning off notifications, checking e mails at specific time intervals. Learning to say no. With effort like this, you can allocate more time to tasks that are truly important in the second square. Of course, you know best what you spend the most time on in the third square and how to solve it. These are just humble suggestions. In summary, each square affects your life in a different way, spending too much time in the first square brings While second square brings long term satisfaction and success. On the other hand, spending too much time in the third square may prevent you from utilizing your true potential. Using the time metric correctly can enhance productivity in both your work and personal life. The key is to focus not only on what's urgent but on what is truly adding value to your life. If you want to create your own time metrics and shift your time from third square to the second square, I have a suggestion for you. Set random alarms for a week. Make sure you set at least 20 alarms. Title a blank page in your notes sap as my time matrix. Each time the alarm goes off, look at what you are doing at that moment and write it down in your notes sap. At the end of the week, review your notes. See what you are doing each square. How much time you're spending in each square and see which ones you can improve. For example, if you're doing a lot of time in third square, which ones can you eliminate to allocate more time in the second square? Yes, I hope I have added something valuable to you and the section. I will see you in the next video. Farewell. 14. DAY 3 - Automations That Get the Job Done (Free): Today, I will talk to you about the power of automation. This way, software will handle your daily small tasks on your behalf. Of course, it is difficult to know specifically which automation you need. That's why I will talk about the ones that will most benefit your verge. Let's get started. Let's start with email automations. With the Mailchimp application, you can automate your e mail sense. For example, would you like to automatically send an e mail when a customer enters their e mail on your website or send a satisfaction survey three days after a product is purchased? You can do this with Mailchimp, or maybe you checked your e mails late at night or on a Sunday. You want to respond to some of them, but you are thinking if it is appropriate to send e mails at DSR. It is better not to. If you use mail applications like Gmail and outlook, you can solve this problem with the feature of sending e mails at later date. Let's move on to social media automations. Many of us use social media in our daily lives or for work, and there are plenty of manual tasks to do here. Instead of setting alarms and constant reminders for your social media posts, you can use applications like Buffer or Hootsuite to schedule your posts in advance. This way, you won't have to spend 10 minutes every day for weeks trying to post at a specific times. Compute If you work on a computer or have important data on your computer, you don't need to bother with constant backups. You can use applications like back place or crash plan for automatic backups. Now, let's say you have a task on your computer that requires a lot of repetition. You can use macro recorder for repetitive tasks. I recorded the video you are currently seeing on the screen. My computer is automatically performing routine tasks. To be able to do the tasks in the video, I use the paid version, but there is also a free version available. Basically, what you do is to define the movements of your cursor and keyboard, macro recorder does the same cursor and keyboard movements on your behalf. It automates the tasks you do. Now let's move on to more personal automations. With the applications, I will show you shortly, you can automate almost any kind of task. These are Zapier and IFTTT. They allow you to create automations between two applications you use. For example, If you have a lot of meetings with customers, you can automatically transfer your meetings to Excel using IFTTT. So you don't need to manually write down every customer's phone number and the time you talk to them in Excel. If you want with Zapper and IFTTT, you can connect many different applications to each other and automate your data tasks, and don't worry. You don't need coding knowledge. As you can see, it works like this. Especially for many tasks we do on computer, we can automate them through software without using any code. I hope you also have automation software that you can use and save time by using it. I will see you in the next video. Goodbye. 15. DAY 3 - Buying Time: Welcome back. Today, I will talk to you about how time can be bought. Yes, we know buying with money. We all have 24 hours in a day. How do some of us become multimillionaires? Do they have more than 24 hours a day? No. For example, think about a pencil factory owner. Does he work alone at every single stage? No. There are people working with him. And here, the concept of buying time comes into play. Simply put, they can do this by buying the time of other people working with them. But times have changed. Previously, like in the example of pencil factory, the only way to buy someone's time was to pay them a full time salary. Now, we don't have to hire full time staff to buy time. Even if it's just an hour, we can all buy time. For example, for short term tasks, we can get help from freelancers, namely independent workers. So now, each of us can buy our own For example, planning the videos you are currently watching, supporting them with research, presenting them to you, and shooting them is my job. However, I'm not very skilled in editing videos. Learning it would also take time, and if I try to do it by myself, I won't be able to focus on producing better videos for you because I will be busy with editing. So having someone else to do the editing makes much more sense for me. If you have similar tasks, you can find the services you are looking for on websites like fiber or upwork.com. Another way of buying time is hiring a virtual assistant. This time, we are not looking for an expert, some ordinary who can give a simple task to maybe waiting for us at a low cost perhaps another corner of the world. You can currently see some virtual assistant on the screen and their hourly rates, as you can see, by paying hourly rates of these individuals, you can have some manual tasks done that you don't want to do yourself. Also, don't forget that you can get professional help for tasks like cleaning the house or taking care of your garden. In fact, we are in buying the time of some people at Sardanas. And instead of spending that time on the task, We are using it for ourselves. Or if you don't have time to cook, you can order food from outside and use that time for other tasks. Actually, the logic is the same. If your own business is earning enough money, you can allow a portion of your income to buy time by focusing more on your own work to earn more. On contrary, if buying time still seems expensive for you, for now, you can keep this idea in the back of your mind. Just remember, we don't need to hire full time staff like before to buy time. We can all do this, and we have come to the end of our video. I say goodbye, and I will see you in our next video. 16. DAY 3 - Revive Your Dead Time: Welcome again. Today, I will talk to you about the concept of that time, and how we can revive this that time. What is that time? That time is usually the time spent waiting for something or performing an automatic task. This time represents a time that could be used to do something more productive or enjoyable. Let's take a look at a few examples of that time together. Taking a shower, driving a car, or in traffic, using public transportation, walking, cleaning, washing dishes, cooking, waiting in line. Eating alone, and many more. In such moments, our minds are usually idle because we are either doing a task we are accustomed to automatically or just waiting idly. Perhaps some of you remember the example of good multitasking from what I just mentioned. So what can be done? There are many methods to make use of that time. For example, you can listen to audio books or podcasts. Review your to do list, do breathing exercises, meditate, watch educational videos, learn a foreign language, or enroll in an online course. All of these are things you can do when you dedicate just 5 minutes each day. So how to make use of this dead time is entirely up to you. Of course, I'm not saying we should feel every dead time with mentally taxing activities. Many of us get tired during the day. Thanks to that times, we are unknowingly recharge or energy, or we give our minds a break. But this isn't always applicable. Sometimes we genuinely waste that time completely. My goal is to raise awareness about this. If you think you waste some of your dead times, you can do the following. You can listen to many educational and entertaining podcasts on your phone. For example, when I'm driving, I often listen to podcasts about entrepreneurship. I have learned many things without even realizing it. If I hadn't listened, I would have wasted that time just driving. You can buy and listen audio books or find free audiobooks on YouTube. You can listen to a book while using public transportation, washing dishes or cooking. If you remember from previous videos, we called this te multitasking. You can use a meditation app or listen to mediation videos on YouTube. This requires a bit of focus. For example, you can't do it while driving, but you can do it while using public transportation or waiting for some times when I'm alone eating are the most productive for me because I can focus on the screen. You can use apps like Duolingo to learn a foreign language. You can do this just 5 minutes a day. The choice of what to do in your dead time is entirely up to you. You can find many online courses on platforms to make use of your dead time. For example, you can listen to a course while cooking or washing dishes, or you can watch me while eating. Here, reviving dead time is possible in this way. Remember, you don't need to revive every that moment. You don't have to be too harsh on yourself and try to make use of every moment. However, making use of some of it will help you to improve without even realizing it. I hope you have found a way to revive your time in your own line from the given examples. I will see you in our next video. 17. DAY 3 - The 2-Minute Rule: Hello again. Today, I will talk to you about the two minute rule as simple yet effective method to increase your productivity. So, what is this two minute rule? The two minute rule is a method that suggests if you think a task can be completed in a less than 2 minutes, you should do it immediately. So why? This rule prevents the accumulation of small tasks. Applying the two minute rule helps you quickly complete small tasks on your to do list. This allows you to allocate more time to larger tasks. If you tend to procrastinate small tasks, you will notice how much you accomplish and how many burdens you eliminate when you apply this rule for a while. Let's give a few examples to clarify right away. While checking your e mail, if you can see an e mail you can respond to immediately, you can reply within 2 minutes. You can apply this rule to tasks that will take a short time. Placing a document in a scanner or making a quick phone call. You can also use this rule to take a quick note or edit a photo swiftly. You can apply this rule to placing an order, doing a quick research or updating an application swiftly. There is only one place where you shouldn't apply this rule in the middle of a task where you fully focused. Otherwise, you might lose your focus. As you can see, the two minute rule is based on a simple principle, but has a significant impact. By integrating this rule into your data life, you can increase your productivity and prevent the accumulation of small but numerous tasks that can overwhelm you. Until the next video, see you and take care. 18. DAY 3 - Your Turn (and Summary): Hello. In this video, you will find summaries of the topics we covered in the previous videos. Let's quickly go over everything. If you are ready, let's begin. First, we started with the concept of time metrics. This metrics which help us to prioritize tasks by categorizing them into four categories from urgent and important tasks to unimportant and not urgent ones. Guide us through a wide range, especially by moving time from the third quadrant to the second quadrant, we learned to focus on actions that truly create value in our lives. If you want to take immediate action in this regard, take a look at the tasks you have completed on your to do list and place them into your time matrix. Let's see if you have a lot of tasks in the fourth quadrant. Or do third quadrant tasks prevent you from enjoying things that give you pleasure or realizing your dreams to dominate the second quadrant. After that, we talked about the power of automation. Automation is a tool we can use to simplify our daily routines and tasks. With tools like mail chip, buffer hoot suit, macro recorder, we can automate our tasks and save time. The best thing you can do here is to find the one that suits you best among all these automations. If you can't find it, be sure to check Zap here because you can create custom automations without needing to know codes. Next, we learned how time can be boolt. Freelancers, virtual assistants, and other professional services can help you use your time more efficiently, allowing you to focus on bigger goals and tasks you excel at. Remember, in the past, only factory owners could buy time. Now, anyone can. So why miss this opportunity, and here comes to the next video. By addressing the concept of dead time, we saw how we can use this time more efficiently. We can use podcasts, audio books, meditations and educational content to make use of our dead time. If you want to take immediate action, the quickest place to look is during your commute. Whether on a public transportation or in the car, audio books or podcasts can be a great habit. Finally, we emphasize the importance of quickly completing small tasks with the two minute rule. The simple rule can help you complete many tasks in your daily life. With the methods we have learned, we can use our time more consciously and effectively. I hope the summary video has refreshed the information you gathered from the previous videos and provided you with a general perspective. I will be back in the next video with new topics. For now, take care. 19. DAY 4 - Focus Disruptors: Let me say we have a task. Maybe you need to think creatively. Maybe you need to come up with a solution. Maybe we need to analyze a situation. Maybe we will conduct in depth research. The one thing we need to do all these tasks effectively is to focus. Because it requires thinking. Do you know the cost of distraction, like reading an e mail, and notification on your phone a friend calling you just because they are bored while you are actively thinking on a single topic. According to a study conducted at the University of California, by the way, you can access the study from the sources section if you wish, when the focus of a completely focused person is disrupted, it takes an average of 23 minutes for that person to regain the same level of focus. Yes, we are talking about a completely focused individual. It takes this long to return to this state again. Now let's look at together. Now let's look together. What are the factors that disrupt focus? Basically three. We divide them into three. Internal factors that disrupt focus. External factors that disrupt focus, but we can control and external factors that disrupt focus, but we can control. It is worth mentioning before we start in this video, we are just identifying distracting sources. We'll address the solutions in next video. Yes, let's start with the first one. Internal factors that distract focus. Anne idea that comes to your mind can distract your focus. The best method would be to write down all the ideas and tasks that come to your mind on a paper for you to look at when you finish your work. This way, you will clear your mind when you finish your work. You will not only have your ideas, but also haven't lost your focus. A method I particularly use, especially when I'm working on the computer is to open a NV tab and search for things that come to my mind or that I'm curious about on Google. Then when I finish my work, I review those taps. What could be another internal factor? Physical factors like tiredness, stress, hunger, lack of sleep are also some internal factors you might encounter. You might remember. One of the earlier sections of this course, we focused entirely on the topic. Of course, finally, tiredness due to working too much. I'm talking about fatigue of our brain. In such situations, you may not get enough efficiency from focused work. Taking a break or turning to tasks that don't require focus is often a better solution. So those were internal factors. What about the external factors, the ones that come from outside, External factors that disrupt focus, but we can control. Here is the area where we are most aware of, but do not intervene. What's up, Instagram, TikTok, telegram, discord, e mails, SMS YouTube Spotify. How many different notifications do we get on our phones. The same notifications also come to our computers. Some of us even receive them on smart watches, and we have elements that we cannot blame technology for. That's a messy workplace. Fortunately, these elements are something that we can control. We will look together in the upcoming videos at how we can do that. Now let's move on to the next group. External factors that disrupt focus, but we can control. External sounds like construction notes, loud talking people, sudden visitors Unexpected urgent phone calls, other emergencies, health issues, unexpected emergencies like natural disasters can be exemplified as external factors. These are usually unavoidable and it is more reasonable to adapt to them rather than trying to solve or control them. Yes. These were the factors that disrupt our focus. Let's see what the solutions are from the next video onwards. I will see you in the next video. 20. DAY 4 - Rescue Your Focus: Computer: Welcome back again. In our previous video, we talked about factors that disrupt our focus. Today, I'm here with practical tips on how the computer specifically distracts our focus and how to overcome it. Okay. Let's start with something easy first. That is the computer, because personally, I think the phone is much more distracting. Come on. Let's start one by one. Turn off notifications. I'm aware that you already know the solution, but most of us don't take action. Consider this video as a motivating signal. Constant e mail, social media, or other app notifications while working on your computer will distract your focus. Remember, the cost of breaking deep focus is approximately 23 minutes for us. I'm starting first, and as you can see, on the screen, I'm turning off what Sp notifications on my computer. I have taken the first step. Now it is your turn. Let's move on to the next item. Two, work with a single task focus. That is single tasking, the opposite of multitasking. The habit of multitasking is actually a factor that reduces your efficiency. You already know we have covered this in our previous videos. Focus on one task, complete it, and then move on to the next task. That is, let's avoid bad multitasking. For example, If you are using a second monitor, don't keep an application open, that will distract your attention. It is not possible to fully focus on your work while checking your e mails at the same time. Next item. Three, simplify your workspace. Keep only the files you are currently working on your desktop. Remove all other unnecessary files and folders. The reason is simple. Think about the moments when you're bored and don't want to focus. You will deal with as many unnecessary tasks as possible, just to avoid that job at that moment. The first thing that will catch your attention is unnecessary objects on your desk. Don't give yourself this opportunity to do this. If you're at your desk right now, pause the video and take 2 minutes to tie the up. Do you remember the two minute rule? This, in my opinion, is a task that takes less than 2 minutes. Four, set digital detox times. Completely step away from the competer at the times you have designated during today. This will both refresh your mind and increase your focus. Of course, I won't be too strict in the site because for those who like to work on the competer, it can only be possible in the evening. Of course, the farther the better. Let's move on to the fifth item. I want to do something practical right away. If you're using Google Chrome, we are going to install a great extension. I'm going to the Google Chrome webstore right away. I type forest in the search section, and I click on the extension that appears. I say Add To Chrome. I say at extension, and the download process has started. Right away, I find and click on the extension named Fort from the top right. I go the settings, click on block list, and here I'm typing the website I don't want to visit while focusing. Then I click on Forest again from the top right, and I click on the Tree to focus for 10 minutes. As you can see, it no longer allows me to use the site when I go to YouTube until my ten minute focused work time is over. If you are using Safari, instead of Google Chrome, you can download the Forest app from the App store on your Mapbo. Six, separate your physical and digital space. If possible, separate the environment, where you play games or watch movies from the environment, where you work. This will help you set your mind to different modes for each activity. For example, while playing games or watching movies on the couch, you can use a desk to exclusively dedicated to your work for only your work. This way, every time you sit at that desk, your brain will know what to expect in advance. It will make you feel psychologically ready to work. Finally, in addition to these recommendations, don't forget to refresh your minds with relaxation techniques, such as taking breaks, short vats, or meditation. You can refer to these recommendations to maintain your focus and work efficiently. In our next video, I will be presenting tips on how to maintain your focus with our phones. Until then, goodbye. 21. DAY 4 - Rescue Your Focus: Phone: Hello again. After sharing our tips on how to maintain focus on the computer in the last video. This time, I'm here with practical tips on how our phones distract our focus and how to overcome these situations. Let's start right away without wasting any time. One, customized notifications. Instead of turning off notifications for all apps, keep notifications active only for those that are truly important. For example, you can enter the settings of an app. You use a lot of and receive many notifications to turn off some of notifications. Now, I'm entering Instagram, clicking on my profile and opening the menu from the top right. I click on notifications. I currently see various types of notifications on the screen. For example, I'm removing unnecessary promotional notifications from Instagram. There are also apps whose notifications we hardly find importance. For this, I open notifications tab in the setting section on my phone. I enter app notifications, and here I'm turning off notification permissions for apps where receiving notifications is unnecessary. This way, my attention won't go to the phone unnecessarily. Two, limit your screen time. We all secretly know that we spend too much time on some apps. Now it is time to be honest with ourselves, let's do this right away practically. Right now on the screen, you can see how to limit your daily app usage both on Android and iPhone. Just select an app that you don't want to enter regularly and set a time limit like 2 hours. From now on, I won't be able to use some social media apps and games from more than 2 hours a day. My phone won't allow it. Three, simplify your home Keep on the apps you really need on your home square. You can make accessing other apps a bit more difficult by moving them to the second or third pages. For example, if you use YouTube a lot and find yourself clicking on it, unintentionally, take YouTube and add it to the very bottom of an irrelevant folder. After that, even if you're looking for YouTube, you won't find it easily, and at that moment, you will remember the mini addition you created and won't open YouTube. For, do not disturb mode. You can try putting your phone in this mode at certain times. Especially during your working hours or times when you need to focus. You can use your phone and do not disturb modes. This way, you will get rid of most distracting elements. Five, phone. You can use a secondary phone as a phone. You can use a second phone exclusively for work to separate personal and work related apps and notifications. This can be effective method to separate your work and personal life. Using completely separate lines and different whatsapp and a different contact list can be beneficial for those who use the phone frequently for work. Six, physically distance yourself from your phone. In tasks that require a lot of focus, putting your phone far away from your work space or work area is the most practical and effective solution. In conclusion, although our phones have become an indispensable part of our lives, we must not forget that they also bring elements that distract our focus. You can refer to these suggestions to protect your focus. In our next video, we will be talking about the time blocking technique in general for maintaining focus. I will see you in that video. Goodbye. 22. DAY 4 - Time Blocking: Hello, again, what is normally added to the calendar? Meetings, phone calls, presentation, events, holidays. The purpose of adding these to the calendar is to bring multiple people together at the same date and time. That's why we definitely add these kinds of things to the calendar. But what about tasks we want to focus on alone? What about them? Why not allocate exclusive times for ourselves in the calendar for tasks we want to finish without any distractions. Why not? Right? Why not have solo meetings with ourselves. Today, I will talk to you about the time blocking method. So, what is this method? Let's take a look at together. We all have 24 hours a day, but sometimes even it comes without us realizing how the day passed. By allocating your day into specific time blocks, you can decide in advance how much time you will spend on tasks that require sole focus. This is called time blocking. Time blocking not only helps you become more organized but also assist you in completely focusing on a task. For example, There's a topic you need to think about for your work. L is expanding to the Spanish market strategy. You need to focus on that. You need to think about it, or why did the campaign in July fail? You think you need to investigate that. I quickly open Google calendar. I look at my calendar. On Wednesday, I see a gap in the morning. Two hour seem to be enough for me. I immediately block a two hour time for the topic of expanding to the Spanish market. Then I add another time block for the next day. I titled Investigate July campaign. Now I have decided these hours entirely to tasks I defined for myself. If I have teammates, they will see that I'm busy during these hours and they want to disrupt me if I'm in a meeting. Actually, I will already be in a meeting, but only with myself. Now, let's talk about the biggest enemy of time blocking. Interruptions. So during your working hours, minimize the things that will distract your attention. You can apply the techniques from the previous video. You can quickly silence your phone or close your door. We will already be talking enough about distracting things in this section dedicated to focus. Also, even if you plan everything, unexpected things can happen. So don't forget to leave a small gaps in your calendar. For example, don't immediately put a time block right after a meeting that ends at 3:00 P.M. Put a bit later like three 15. Maybe you need a break. Maybe you will go to the restroom. So time blocking will help you have more focused and productive day. Try this method and start adding not only tasks with others, but also tasks with yourself to your calendar. Thank you for listening, and I will see you in the next video. Goodbye. 23. DAY 4 - Focus and Breaks (Pomodoro): Hello. Welcome back. In our previous video, we talked about how to block time to work more efficiently. So how can we work more focused in the block time periods and increase our productivity? This is where the Pomodoro technique comes in. The pomodoa technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo, in the 1980s. It takes its name from the Italian word Pomodore which means tomato, because Cirillo used a tomato shaped timer in the kitchen while developing this technique. So what exactly this technique and how is it applied? Let's take a look together. Set the timer for 25 minutes. The first step is to set a timer for duration of 25 minutes. During this 25 minute period, you should work uninterruptedly and completely focused on a task. When the timer ends, take a short five minute break. During this time, you can stand up, have a drink of water or look out the window. When you complete four sets of 25 minute work sessions and five minute breaks, take a longer break of 15 to 30 minutes. Then you can start another set of 25 minute session. This simple technique establishes a rhythm of continuous focus and rest for your brain. This rhythm reduces the feeling of fatigue and enhances your ability to focus. What are the advantages of the pomodary technique. Less fatigue. Regular breaks reduce fatigue felt during long working sessions, higher focus, short periods of focus prevent your attention from wandering, effective time management. 25 minute intervals help you complete tasks more quickly, increase motivation at the end of each 25 minute session. You experience a sense of accomplishment. Finally, the most important thing when applying the pomodory technique is not to let your attention wander during this time If something distracts you, you should restart that pomodora from the beginning. In other words, you should focus for another 25 minutes. Now, let's move on to using the technology. I opened my phone and downloaded the app called Pomodora. I'm opening the app. I have a simple interface in front of me. It says Pomodora 25 minutes below. When I start, as you can see, my 25 minutes have started. When I press and hold, I can cancel. Let's say I completed 25 minutes. I click on pomodoro when I'm entering the five minute short break modes. When I press start again, my five minute break has started. Let's cancel this two. Once again, let's click on the short breaks. As you can see, I can now switch to the long break modes. By switching between these three modes, I can use this app with a very simple interface. Now I'm clicking on the menu in the top right. Here, I see that I can set the pomodora 25 minutes or the break to 5 minutes or long break. If I think, I get more productivity. I can extend my pomodora time by 30 minutes from here. Or I can make additional customizations like notification sounds and alarm sounds blow. The Pomodor app is simple and it is easy to use. You can download it if you want. Now, I want to talk about another app Forest because this is the app that I personally use. And I can say it works almost the same way. The forest app has two modes. When I press up, I see the modes. I will either start a stopwatch or start a timer. For example, I open the timer and set my duration. For example, I can focus for 10 minutes or 85 minutes, but I don't like this. Instead, I prefer using a stopwatch and focusing for as long as I want. Then I pressed the plant button and now my tree has started growing. If I work for a long time, a bigger time tree will be planted. So I can see my trees and understand how much I have focused. If you want, there's a small motivation added inside the app. Let's say my focus is done. Actually, it is not done right now. It should be at least 10 minutes in total. I say, give up. And right now, unfortunately, a minute tree couldn't be planted. If I had done it correctly, my work would have been planted. So just like Pomodoro app, I can set my focus period using forest as well. In this video, you learned how to use the Pomodoro technique to increase focus and productivity. Try this technique and see the difference for yourself. I will be back in the next video with different time management techniques. Until then, goodbye. 24. DAY 4 - Focus Exercise: Hello. Today, I will provide you with information about an interesting and well known focus technique. These pieces of information are recommended by two experts in their fields. And first one is Andrew Huberman. And the second one is Ali Abdal. First, we will examine Andrew Huberman's suggested visual focus technique, the interesting one. So, who is Andrew Huberman. Andrew Huberman is a neuroscience professor at Stanford University. He is known for his studies on the brain, eyes, and behavior. Let's watch it together. Focusing our visual attention on one particular point is incredibly effective for all types of goal pursuit. So let's apply this visual tool in a very simple way to any type of goal that you want to pursue. Maybe it's a workout, maybe it's cognitive work of some particular sort. You're going to focus your visual attention on one point, beyond your peri personal space. It could be on your computer, it could be on the wall. It could be a horizon, it could be at a distance, and you're going to focus your visual attention there, and with some effort, you're going to hold your visual attention for 30 to 60 seconds. You might blink, that's okay, but you're going to try and hold your visual attention there. No moving your head around, no diverting your attention to other locations. Some people will find it very easy to do, other people will find it quite hard. For people who have ADHD and focus issues and attentional issues, this can be effective. For people who don't, this can also be effective. Again, it places your brain and body into a state of readiness, and then the idea is to move into the particular actions that bring you closer to your goal. As you can see, Huberman mentions that by focusing our visual attention on a specific point for 30 to 60 seconds, we can increase our focus ability. This simple visual focus technique prepares our brain and body for a focused state, helping us perform actions that will lead us to our goals. Before engaging in work that requires focus, you can spend 30 seconds trying out this technique. Many of you may remember this notebook from the Routines video. And in this notebook, you saw something called 3 minutes of eye exercise in one section. And with the pen you see here, I was doing this exercise. Actually, this exercise was given by my doctor due to my eye misalignment. However, I realized that I had been unintentionally doing the same exercise like this. The exercise is simply to focus on a point on this pen and continue doing that for about 3 minutes. So, in fact, I have been unintentionally doing the exercise given by Andrew Hubberman for quite some time. After realizing this, I continued doing it this way. Now, I believe it is more beneficial for me. Now, let's take a look at Ali Ado's adventure working technique. If you're struggling to stay focused while studying, then you might want to try a technique called adventure studying. This is a concept from computer science, Professor Cal Newport. And it's based on the idea that our brain craves novelty. Normally, studying in your room or in your library is pretty boring. But if you can find a way to incorporate a sense of adventure into your work, you'll automatically become more productive and you'll even enjoy the process a little bit more. For example, you might try taking a walk to the local coffee shop and working from there, or maybe even heading outdoors and studying under a tree or something. If you've got a free weekend coming up, take a road trip with friends to a cottage and study together from there. It's really all about finding ways to enjoy the journey because when we're having fun, productivity takes care of it I suggest that adding a sense of adventure to our working process can increase our focus and productivity. In other words, by changing our work routine and working in different environments, we can become more focused by introducing novelty to our brains. One of the most well known examples of this could be culture of working in a coffee shop. Both techniques offer approach that can help us overcome the challenges with focus and productivity. Der Huberman's visual focus technique by concentrating our visual attention on a specific point prepares our brain and body for a focused state. On the other hand, Ali Abdel's adventure working technique highlights the benefits of introducing novelty and working in a different environment during our work time. Both techniques are vert trying. You can experiment with both to see which one is more effective for you. Until the next video, farewell. 25. DAY 4 - Your Turn (and Summary): Focus and distractions. Focus is the key to efficient work. However, internal focus that we can control and external factors that we cannot may disrupt our focus. Recognizing these factors can help us deal with them. Focus on computer. Computers are one of the main elements that distract our attention. Turning of notifications, working on a single task, simplifying workspace, and downloading a site blocker like Forest can help us more focused on the computer. Focus on. Phones can easily distract our attention. Customizing notifications, limiting screen time, simplifying home screen, and using the do not disturb mode can help us work more focused on the phone. Time blocking. In our calendar, we should allocate time not only for meetings and events but also for tasks that require focus. This can help us use our day more efficiently. Pomodora technique. Setting the time intervals of 25 minutes of work and 5 minutes of break can increase your focus and productivity using the Pomodor technique. Visual focus and adventure working technique. Using Andrew Huberman's visual focus technique. Try focusing on a point for 30 to 60 seconds just before starting focused work. Use Ab Das adventure working technique to change your environment when you're bored and add a little excitement to your work. Finally, focus and productivity are a continuous learning and application process. By trying out these techniques I shared, you can find out which one is most effective for you. With the summary, we have revisited the key points of the section. I hope this information helps you to create a more focused and productive work process. I will be back with NP Topics in our next video. Until then, farewell. 26. DAY 5 - Perspective: Shall we do a little test together? Picture one. What do you see in this picture? A woman? What is she wearing, where she is looking, backwards. What kind of woman she is? Is she beautiful? Picture two. Now, let's take a look at this picture. What do you see here? How old do you think she is? How is her nose big or small? What if I told you the reverse? This woman is 60 to 70 years old with a huge nose. Look at the picture again. Can you see the old Look again. Do you see it? Could you see her nose? What about her scarf? Did you see it? Let's take a look at the picture tree. If you didn't see it, it's okay. Take a look at this picture too. Do you see the old woman now? In a study conducted at Harvard Business School, half of the students were shown the first picture, and the other half were shown the last picture you saw. Then the pictures were collected. Students who saw the first and third pictures were paired and the second picture was placed in front of them. Students who saw the first picture were trying to convince others that they saw a young woman. Students who save the third picture were sure that it was an old woman. But in reality, both were right. They were just looking from different perspectives. This experiment shows how powerful perspective is and how it can change how we perceive something. Both groups of students were looking at the same picture. However, what they saw was completely different. So what does this tell us in our daily lives? Have you ever thought about how decisive your perspective is when you encounter a problem, interpret an event, or make a decision. Let me remind you of Henry for quotes. It's entirely about what you believe in. Perspective is not limited to visual perception alone. It also affects your mindset through structure and decisions. Mentality is a factor that determines how you react, move and succeed in every aspect of your life. If we have a limited perspective, it creates limitations in our mentality as well. However, by accepting and trying to understand different perspectives can be broad on our mentality and become a more flexible, adaptive, and innovative individual. I will end the video slowly with a quote from Michael Jordan. And the next video, you will watch the most important section of the mentality parts. 27. DAY 5 - Upper Self and Lower Self: Hello. In this video, we will focus on two different aspects of our intervals. Remember the previous video. In fact, we will be looking at the same picture, but we will change our perspective. Thus, by approaching ourselves in a way we haven't before, we will reach a new level of consciousness mentality. Let's get started, higher self and lower self, representing our best version, our highest potential. This is the self, where we act our best selves, our best habits, and leave our highest potential. These two selves represent how we can be at the top and the bottom of our potential. On the contrary, the lower self is where we operate well below our potential, driven by our worst habits and behaviors. We are somewhere in between those two cells. You can think of it as being in the middle of these two cells. Every day with each decision, we are either getting closer to our higher self or slipping towards our lower self. First, let's define our higher and lower cells. Step one, abstract definition. First, define your highest and lower cells with abstract concepts. Values, characteristics or emotions represent these two selves. Example, my higher self, hardworking, understanding, well intentioned, loving, healthy, calm, discipline. In this way, I can outline an abstract, higher self with these concepts. The Dolni who fully embodies these concepts is the ideal me. The Dolni I want to be, my lower self, lazy, selfish, impatient, two faced, obsessed, angry. In this way, I can create my lower self with abstract concepts. The Dolni approaching with these abstract concepts is the Dolni I never want to be. I'm very determined not to embody the stun. Step two, concrete definition. The reason for abstract definition was to understand what we want or do not want to be first. Now, let's define these abstract concepts with concrete actions, habits, or behaviors because at this stage, our goal is to understand clearly which self we are approaching. Example, higher self characteristic. Hardworking. Just saying hardworking doesn't express something clear. The goal should never be just to be hardworking because that's not clear. I need to know what I did to become hardworking. It varies from person to person. So let's now customize the word hardworking in a personal way. Let's say our example is a person who wants to start their own business, but can't quit their job due to economic conditions. For this person, the concrete expression of hardworking is I dedicate at least 6 hours on the weekends to establish my own business or instead of loving, spending at least half an hour with the children every day then coming home from work, instead of healthy, exercising for a minimum of 10 minutes every day, instead of discipline, regularly filling out a routine journal. Now, we know clearly whether we are getting closer to higher self or because we have concretized abstract concepts according to our own conditions. Now, let's concretize our lower self. Instead of lazy, spending more than an hour on social media at a stretch. Instead of unhealthy eating fast food more than twice a week or not exercising at all. Instead of angry, not consciously spending time to understand the other side in the argument. We can make clarifications like this. Now you know clearly whether you are getting closer to your lower self or not. This exercise is an excellent opportunity for you to better understand your ineval and see which habits or behaviors pull you towards the top or bottom of your potential. With this knowledge, you can identify the changes you need to make in your life and guide these changes. I have prepared a file for you to start this exercise easily. You can start filling it out immediately by taking a print out of the file you see on the screen. First, we are trying to define our higher and lower selves abstractly. We concretize the abstract concepts according to our own conditions and make them clear. Later, you can place it somewhere you can easily see every morning. You can even make it a habit by adding, reading the higher and lower self exercise to your routine journal every day. This way, you can overcome anything you are willing to overcome, such as pocastination, lack of willpower, unwillingness, unhealthiness, disciplined behavior. Because we are changing something, we are writing down all the concepts we want to overcome in a concrete. Now, you won't be able to say, I'm not hard working. I am lazy. You will say I worked as much as I promised myself to achieve my dream job every single week. Do you see the difference between these two? Remember the old beautiful woman picture. Here we are looking at the same picture. But this time we are looking from different angles. We are not saying I'm hardworking, or I'm lazy. We are concretized this and look in the way we concretize it. And this different perspective is what changes. In the next lesson, you can find and download the source file in different formats. Also, you can print it. Until the next video, I wish you pleasant times with your higher self, and goodbye. 28. DAY 5 - Developing Willpower: Hello. Today, we will discuss the topic of Well power in the mindset section. Will power is one of the most crucial elements that helps us achieve our goals. Simply, it is the determination to do or not to do something. Will power is an inner strength that keeps us going when faced with challenges, enabling us to reach our goals. So you can think of well power like a muscle. Just as we strengthen our muscles through regular exercise, we can also strengthen our well power through certain habits and methods. Like a muscle, will power requires regular exercise, and remember, it develops as you face challenges. Here are some suggestions to improve your well power. Set small goals? Psychologist Jordan Peterson says, find the least organized thing in the room and fix it. This emphasizes taking small steps first to achieve a larger goal. For example, even a simple habit like making your bed every day can help strengthen your willpower. Why? Making your bed sets a successful tone for the day? Of course, if we can manage to make our bet, this small success motivates you to achieve bigger success throughout today and gradually strengthen your willpower. Because the brain doesn't measure the magnitude of success, did we succeed in our first task in the morning. Yes, we did. Then we are motivated and believe even more our ability to succeed. Now we understand the importance of the routine journal we keep every single morning. Don't we? In fact, every morning, by completing the tasks in this journal, we start the day with multiple successes. On top of that, we receive the reward for completing them all. So we earn the right to fill the journal and we fill it. If you haven't started your morning routines yet, I think I have emphasized a very good point right now. You can pause this video now and order a journal. Or you can take a print out of the document I have prepared for you. Now let's move on to the next point. Reward yourself. Reward yourself when you complete a task. Feeling the journal is actually our reward. Of course, not just that things we learn while reading a book, feeling healthy and fit after exercising all our rewards. But you can add one more on top of this. For example, if you promise to exercise every day for a week, you can treat yourself to a book you love or enjoy a favorite meal. This will strengthen your willpower and motivate you. Next point, avoid negativity. Negative thoughts and people can weaken your real power. The saying you are the average of five people closest to you perfectly summarizes the impact of those around us. If negativity is becoming prevalent in your surroundings, it can decrease your energy and motivation. It can even drain you. To avoid such negativity, you can limit your use of social media, reduce relationships with negative people and read books that promote positive thinking. For example, many people like yourself who want to improve are taking this course. This further motivates you to achieve your dreams. Here, what you need to avoid is precisely the opposite. Now, onto our new point, practice meditation, especially focus on breath meditation. It calms your mind and helps you focus. By focusing only on your breath for 10 minutes every day, you will gradually notice a change in yourself. Next point, develop whelpower with concrete examples. For example, turning off your phone at a specific time every day, avoiding sugar for a certain periods, or developing habits like taking a walk at a specific time every day will help you improve your whelpower step by step. Allow me to explain my perspective. Actually, developing whelpower is very find things that you don't want to do, but will improve you and do them stubbornly. The two things that have benefited me the most in developing my will power are doing planks and taking ice bats. I hate doing planks. I want to quit at the 30 seconds. My body does its best to convince me that it is tired. A voice inside me says, Stop. Now you're tired. But I know very well that my capacity is not just 30 seconds. So I persistently continue until the 19th because I already have the capacity to do it. Giving into my lack of will power would be at defeats. I spat is in the same way. I want to get out. I'm freezing. My body is surrounding the alarm, saying, Get out already. But I know I can endure more. Every time I finish where my potential is, and every time my willpower develops a bit more because I don't want to do them, but they will improve me. So I stubbornly do them. Additionally, we shouldn't forget what I mentioned at the beginning of the video. Will power is like a muscle. It develops as it is challenged. It does without practice, so our goal is very simple. Think about what is currently improving you, but you don't want to do it and do them persistently. In the end, willpower is a very critical element for us to be successful in every aspect of our lives. To improve your willpower, you can refer to the suggestions, as I mentioned. Our next video will be goal setting. Until then, don't forget to apply the suggestions to strengthen your willpower and see you. 29. DAY 5 - Setting the Right Goal: Hello. In our mindset section, we will cover the topic of goal setting. Goals are the compass of our lives. They encourage us to move in the right direction and increase our motivation. However, the goal setting process requires more than just wanting something. The set of right goals and achieve them, we need to adopt a strategic approach. Setting the right goals not only leads to success, but also increases your quality of life and overall. Unclear or misleading goals can mislead you and waste your energy. Therefore, setting your goals correctly is a critical step that will shape the rest of your life. I know, many people around you don't spend time setting goals. In fact, most people don't even have goals, dreaming and setting goals in schools, things that are not talked about. However, even though this phenomenon may not have a place in society, it is present in all ultra successful individuals. To better explain this to you, I will now talk about how to set a goal, and as I talk about each point, I will give an example from another ultra successful person. This way, you will better see how obsessed ultra successful people are with goal setting. Step one, set unique goals. Your goals should align with your personal values, interests, and dreams. La Musk's dream of sending humans to Mars was his unique vision, and this vision was influenced all of his decisions. Question, is your goal really yours? Does it involve elements you are interested in or is it something others have set for you. Step two, set concrete goals. Vague goals can be challenging to motivate you. Instead of being a better person, go for something like volunteering twice a week. Or instead of being a very good soccer player, go for something like being a right finger, playing and starting 11 for Real Madrid for a concrete goal that allows you to measure your progress and observe how close you are to your goal? For example, when Michael Jordan couldn't make the Colic team, he aimed to play in the MBA and become the world's best basketball player. Question. Is your goal concrete and measurable? Can you express it objectively? Let's move on to the next point. Step three, be realistic. Your goals should be specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time bound. Michael Phelps concretized his goal of winning Olympic medals by swimming a specific number of labs every day. Question. Is your goal realistic and Does the effort you put in lead to you to achieve it. Step forward. Determine your reason. There should be strong reasons behind your goals. Steve Jobs was very obsessed with developing technology and making people's lives better. He was even fired from the company he found with Apple. However, he desired to kept him from giving up, even the face of challenges. What is the reason behind wanting you to achieve your goal. Step five, start with small steps. To achieve big goals, you must take small steps. JK Rolling started writing the Harry Potter series with only small notes and ideas before, and she was rejected many times. These small steps slowly turned into significant success over time. There is no such thing as overnight success. Question. What is the first small step you can take right now to reach your goal? Step six, track your progress. You should regularly review your progress in reaching your goals. Vincent Wang did not achieve significant commercial success by selling only a few paintings throughout his life. However, in each of his works, he evaluated what worked and what didn't, continuously improving his artistic abilities and style. Today, his works are among the most valuable paintings in the world. Question, how can you track your progress? What are your success metrics? Step seven B flexi Be prepared for obstacles you may encounter in reaching your goals. When Walton is the first presented the idea of Disneyland, he faced a lot of criticism and failed in many projects. However, he didn't deviate from his vision. Despite criticism, he overcame obstacles and reached his goal. Question, how can you overcome the obstacles you face. In conclusion, goal setting is a critical process that helps shape our lives in direction we desire. Simply setting goals means taking control of our lives. It is not living under the influence of others' ideas. Don't forget to apply these suggestions to set and achieve your goals. See you in the next video and goodbye. 30. DAY 5 - Get Rid of Excuses: Hello again. In this lesson in our mindset section, we will discuss excuses and the concepts of self play. These two topics are among the biggest obstacles we encounter on our personal development journey. However, overcoming these obstacles not only brings us success but also inner peace excuses. We all have excuses from time to time. I couldn't complete this project because I was too busy or I couldn't go to the gym because the weather was cold. But what is really behind these excuses? Often, there are deeper reasons such as fear, laziness or lack of self esteem. For example, a friend constantly talks about wanting to change their job but never takes an action. The excuse is always I'm waiting for the right time. But in reality, the fear of failure and a new job prevents them from taking an action. So instead of facing themselves and being solution oriented, they allow excuses to imprison them, blaming oneself for mistakes, rather than making excuses, accepting problems and mistakes, and learning from them moves us forward. Steer jobs admitted to failure of Apple Newton, one of Apple's first mobile devices, and by learning from that mistake, he released a revolutionary product like iPhone. Be honest with yourself. Instead of making excuses, accept realistic reasons. For example, if you couldn't complete a project, was it because you were genuinely busy or because you couldn't prioritize it correctly. Learn from your mistakes. Making mistakes is natural. What matters is what we learned from those mistakes. Before inventing the light bulb, Thomas Edison made thousands of attempts. He noted what worked and what didn't in each attempt. Take responsibility, stand behind your mistakes or failures. This not only keeps you stronger in the eyes of others, but also in your own eyes. Now, let's come to my favorite topic about excuses. Blaming yourself for every mistake. Yes, it may sound a bit illogical, but you'll understand what I mean better. When many people face a problem or make a mistake, they tend to blame others. However, real personal development lies in accepting our mistakes and shortcomings in every situation. Yes, sometimes we may be right, but that doesn't always mean we are 100% right. Maybe we are 70% right. Maybe we are 90%, maybe even 99% right. However, in every situation, there is inevitably a small thing where we are wrong or could do better. These small percentage slices are invaluable for your personal development. Example one, John worked diligently on a project at the office. Giving his best every day, but on the other hand, he didn't see his teammates as motivated as himself. He sometimes noticed them slacking off. While his teammates were making event plans during the day, John focus was on projects. Then the project failed. He blamed the other members of his team for the failure of the project. However, looking back, perhaps one of the reasons for the project's failure was his lack of communication and planning mistakes. Because his teammates not being motivated enough didn't benefit anyone. But if John had tried to understand his friends lack of motivation and encourage them to work, maybe both sides would have won. If John had blamed his team, he would never have developed. Accepting the situation, John learned from his mistake and be more successful in the future projects. Now, before forming a team, he tries to understand the team better and keep more intraction. Yes, John was very high percentage right, but in very small percentage, he saw his own wrongdoing and improved himself. Example two, after meeting a friend, Emily initially thought the reason for the argument was entirely her friend's wrong behavior. However, after a while, she realized that perhaps her tone or words flew to With this awareness, Emily decided to be more careful in her future communications. These examples show that looking for our mistakes and shortcomings in every situation not only makes us a better person, but also helps us move more successful and happy life. In conclusion, avoiding excuses and blaming ourselves for mistakes not only makes us more successful but also strengthen our character. By applying these suggestions, you can maximize your potential. And until the next video, don't forget to avoid excuses and blame yourself for your mistakes. See you and take care. 31. DAY 5 - The Right Time to Start: We'll come back again. In this lesson in our mindset section, we will discuss the concept that there is no perfect time to start. This topic is one of the biggest psychological barriers that prevent many people from taking action to achieve their dreams. Many people wait for the right time to fulfill their dreams. However, realizing that there is no perfect time is the first step to reaching your dreams. Waiting for perfect conditions to start something can be an excuse not to take action. Because challenges and uncertainties in life will always exist. If we continue to wait for perfect conditions, we may never take an action to achieve our dreams. However, I want to emphasize an important point here. Saying there is no right time doesn't mean you have to start something by risking everything. What's important is to carefully evaluate risks and proceed step by step. For example, let's say you have a dream of starting a restaurant You don't need to sell your only car and help to buy branches with your last money. The first step could be to start researching and learning without quitting your salary job. Then you can work on your recipes. You can try at home, test them on people and get feedback. With this feedback, you can perfect your recipes and eventually sell your dishes to restaurants in bulk. Then by taking online orders from your home, you can grow your business. And when the orders from home help you to pay for the rent of a restaurant, that's when you start your business with your ready customer base and the first branch. So you can quit your salary job. Now, however, it is important to remember that the first step in this process is to research or experiment with recipes. If you don't take the first step, you will never reach your dream of having a restaurant chain. So by taking the first step, you are applying the principle that starting is half of the success. In conclusion, instead of waiting for the perfect conditions to fulfill your dreams, think about what you can do with the conditions you currently have and take action. Don't say, Oh, what would I do if I have $1 million, Say I have this right now. What can I do with it? Asking the right questions will change your perspective. Because the right time to make your dreams come true is right now. Our next lesson will be about productive and reactive. Until then, don't forget to take action for your dreams, because the right time is now and see you. 32. DAY 5 - Proactive VS Reactive: Hello. In this lesson in our mindset section, we will talk about the concepts of proactive and reactive. These two concepts determine the approach you take when making decisions and taking action in every aspect of your life. Being reactive means reacting to external factors, events, or other people. For example, immediately defending yourself when a friend criticizes you or blaming others when there is an error in a project is a reactive approach. In this approach, we relinquish control to external factors and we are often dissatisfied with results. Being proactive is about taking control of your decisions and actions, planning ahead and sticking to that plan. In my terms, it is approaching things with neocortex thinking. The concept of the higher self that we talked about in the previous lessons is a reflection of being pro A proactive approach enables you to take control of your life. For example, when working on a project, you can proactively anticipate and take preventive measures against potential issues, or in a disagreement, with a friend, with a proactive approach, you can try to understand the cause of the disagreement and act towards a solution. Let's clarify a bit more by comparing proactive and reactive approaches, proactive approach, health and nutrition, regular exercise, balanced nutrition, not neglecting annual health checkups. Reactive approach. Going to the doctor when health problems arise or only dieting when you gain weight, financial planning, proactive approach. Reactive approach, making a payment plan when debts accumulate or seeking a solution immediately in a financial crisis, relationships, proactive approach. Noticing problems in the relationship early and talking about them, spending regular, quality time with the partner, trying to understand them. Reactive approach. Seeking a solution when a major problem arises in a relationship or not even bothering to solve it. So what can we do to be proactive know yourself and your emotional reactions. Remember the perspective lesson from previous classes. Like the image of the young and old women, you may not see events from both sides from the same angle. Try to understand the other party first. Then try to be understood. Let's also remember the concepts of higher and lower self. This can help us develop self awareness because all the concrete sentences you write for your higher self are symbols of a proactive approach. Take responsibility. Instead of making excuses, take action by taking responsibility. As we mentioned in our excuses lesson, excuses only set us back. They have no other contributions. Open to learning, learn from your mistakes and take proactive steps not to repeat these mistakes. You can be wrong. You can make mistakes. Reactive individuals do not hold themselves responsible for their mistakes. Whether it is neither 9% or 1%. Regardless of how wrong they are, they don't blame themselves. Proactive individuals blame themselves even if they are only 1% wrong and try to fix that 1%. In conclusion, being proactive is the key to taking control of our lives. While a reactive approach only sets us back. A proactive approach brings us one step closer to our goals. It brings us one step closer to our higher self. Our next lesson will be of a summary nature. Until then, focusing on development, the habit of being proactive, see you in the next lesson and stay well. 33. DAY 5 - Your Turn (and Summary): Section, we shared a lot of valuable information on how to better navigate our lives. I hope I have been helpful. Now, I want to motivate you to take action with some tips on how to apply this information. Let's get started. Change your perspective. Evaluate every different situation from a different perspective. Remember the pictures of the old and young women. This will help you find different solutions to these problems. K yourself. For example, you go to a coffee shop. Your goal is to have a good cup of coffee. The Baristas goal is to prepare a good coffee. But perhaps the ultimate goal is to receive their salary at the end of the month. But the manager's goal is to bring you here more often and maximize the profit. When you look from different perspectives, you will see that a single action can have different outcomes. K yourself, identify your upper and lower selves to determine which habits lift you up and which ones pull you down and do this as quickly as possible. Strengthen your will Your heel power is your most important muscle group. Start with small steps and strengthen your heel power a little more every day. If there is something beneficial, but you don't want to do, it is a great opportunity to strengthen your wheel power. Set your goals. Get closer to your dreams every day by setting concrete and measurable goals. There is no point in walking on a road when you don't know where it leads. Chart your own paths. Know where you are going. Only then you can be motivated to run. Avoid excuses instead of making excuses in the face of challenges, take responsibility and learn from your mistakes. Always think as if you are guilty and focus on developing yourself. Start now. Don't forget that there is no perfect time to fulfill your dreams. Take action now. Finally, don't wait to start implementing this information into your life. Remember, there is no perfect time. Every day, put what you have learned into practice and improve your life. Remember, you must take the first step for change. I will be back with more information and tips in our next videos. Now, it is time to put what you have learned into action, and goodbye. 34. Summary of Everything: Yes, we are almost approaching in the end of our course. I'm grateful to you for accompanying me on this journey so far. You should congratulate yourself. Also, your thoughts are very valuable to me. I hope you enjoyed the course. I would be very happy if you could share your thoughts by giving a rating and commenting on the course. I read and respond to each comment individually. Now, I want to summarize all the information we have learned and discuss how to manage our time more productively and effectively, routines and habits. Take advantage of the power of habits to create your daily routines and turn them into habits. You can get a notebook like mine, or you can write down your daily routine on a piece of paper. Practical time management. Manage your time effectively with to do lists, effective calendar usage and various applications. Use the time metric. Let's see how much time you spent in the third quadrant. Use automations to get rid of repetitive tasks. Use technique of leveraging that times to make the most out of your time. Preserve focus. Recognize distractions to reclaim the focus stolen by the computer and phone. Optimize your working time with methods like Pomodora technique. Mindset, set your goals by changing your perspective and avoid making excuses. Increase your willpower and take action immediately. Finally, don't wait to implement this knowledge into your life. Pour what you learn into practice every day to improve your life in a better direction. Remember, you must take the first step for change. If there was a section, you didn't understand or got distracted while listening, don't fight with your ego. Open up and listen to that section again and enrich your life with what you have learned throughout this course. I will see you in the next courses and goodbye. 35. Take an Action: I'll come back again. Now that we have summarized. I wouldn't forgive myself if I didn't encourage you to take an action. In this section, I will give you a tip from each section to motivate you to take action. My goal is for you to get as much benefit as possible from this course. Let's get started. Routines and habits section. Be sure to get your routine notebook or paper. In the mornings, start meeting routines towards the habits you want to have. Take a paper right now and write my routines on it. Your first task tomorrow morning should be to perform your first routine and write it down on paper. Practical time management. Take an empty notebook. This is your to do list. Fill it every morning to start the day. The first item in your routine notebook might be preparing your to do list. Create plan and manage time section. Make use of your dead time. Try listening to audio books while driving, using public transportation or doing household chores. Download an audio book app right now. If you will be on the road even for a short time tomorrow, set an alarm for your departure time. Name the alarm as, weren't you going to listen to an audio book. Preserve focus section. Go to the setting section of your phone. Click on notifications. Check all apps one by one. Turn off notifications for those you don't want to receive. Mindset section. Download the file I shared with you in the section and determine your higher self and lower self. Put it somewhere, you can see it every day. Make it one of your morning routine tasks to read it. Here are some nice suggestions I selected for you from each section. I hope I have been able to contribute you to taking an action on at least one thing before closing this video. We are now slowly approaching in the end of our course. I will see you in the next video. 36. Certificate, Thanks and Congratulations: Hello. Welcome to the final lesson of this course. First of all, I want to sincerely thank you for being with me on this journey. I hope this course has been a valuable experience field with useful information for you. Don't forget that you can obtain your certificate now. This certificate will be a document demonstrating what you have learned and your ability to apply this knowledge. You can add it to your resume if you wish. Also, it would be very valuable for me if you could read and comment on this course. I read and respond to each comment carefully. Honestly, your valuable comments are a great source of motivation for me. Lastly, remember that learning gains meaning through taking action. By applying what you have learned through this course, you can demonstrate real change and development in your life. I wish you all success. I hope to encounter you again in another course or training. And goodbye. 37. My Other Courses: First of all, congratulations once again for completing this course. In this video, I would like to tell you about my other courses. If you found this course helpful and want to continue your learning journey, you can check out my other courses. It is worth mentioning that they may not be entirely related to the topic. However, I still recommend taking a look if they contribute to your learning goals. You can directly visit my instructor profile to see my current courses. I would be happy to support you on your learning journey. I hope we will be together in other courses as well. For now, goodbye and keep learning.